Commonwealth v. DeSimone
Commonwealth v. DeSimone
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
On September 15, 1940, John DeSimone was convicted, after trial by jury, of various offenses. He was sentenced on the same date and took no appeal. Appellant is now seeking post-conviction relief, asserting that (1) he was denied the right to appeal; (2) he was not given the effective assistance of counsel; and (3) he was denied the right to have counsel present at the time of the rendering of the verdict and at the time of sentence.
Appellant’s present petition under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, Act of January 25,1966, P. L. (1965) 1580, as amended, 19 P.S. §1180-1 et seq., was filed on July 5, 1967. It was denied without hearing on July 10, 1967. The Superior Court affirmed per curiam, without opinion, on December 8, 1967. We re
Appellant then filed this appeal.
Nor is the situation altered by the fact that we once granted allocatur in this case and remanded it. The case started anew when it went back for a hearing, and the appeal lies to the Superior Court, not the Supreme Court.
The case is remitted to the Superior Court.
The Commonwealth, states in its brief that “appellant filed an appeal from [the order of August 26, 1968] to the Superior Court, which shortly thereafter affirmed the lower court.” Not an iota of support for this statement can be found in this record.'
The hearing court, in its order of August 26, 1968, directed the Clerk of Courts to return the entire record to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for further disposition.
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